how to get the host url using javascript from the current page

Question

Given that I\'m on the following page:

http://www.webmail.com/pages/home.aspx

How can I retrieve the host name (\"http://www.webmail.

Answer 1

To get the hostname: location.hostname

But your example is looking for the scheme as well, so location.origin appears to do what you want in Chrome, but gets not mention in the Mozdev docs. You can construct it with

location.protocol + '//' + location.hostname

If you want the port number as well (for when it isn't 80) then:

location.protocol + '//' + location.host